0-6-0

0-6-0 (Six-coupled)

Hackworth's Royal George of 1827

Equivalent classifications UIC class C French class 030 Turkish class 33 Swiss class 3/3 Russian class 0-3-0

First known tank engine version First use 1850s

First known tender engine version First use 1827 Country United Kingdom Locomotive Hackworth's Royal George Railway Stockton and Darlington Railway Designer Timothy Hackworth Builder Timothy Hackworth Benefits Total engine mass as adhesive weight Drawbacks Instability at speed

0-6-0 is the Whyte notation designation for steam locomotives with a wheel arrangement of no leading wheels, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles, and no trailing wheels. Historically, this was the most common wheel arrangement used on both tender and tank locomotives in versions with both inside and outside cylinders.

In the United Kingdom, the Whyte notation of wheel arrangement was also often used for the classification of electric and diesel-electric locomotives with side-rod coupled driving wheels. Under the UIC classification, popular in Europe, this wheel arrangement is written as C if the wheels are coupled with rods or gears, or Co if they are independently driven, the latter usually being electric and diesel-electric locomotives.^[1]